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The tipper truck, containing aggregate, lost control when going down the hill in cold weather, struck a group of pedestrians before crushing a car.

Three victims named as Mitzi Rosanna Steady, 4, Stephen Vaughan 34 and Phil Allen, 52. Mitzi's grandmother was taken by Air Ambulance to Southmead Hospital in Bristol, where she remains in a critical condition.

The tipper truck, containing aggregate, lost control when going down the hill in cold weather, struck a group of pedestrians before crushing a car.

Three victims named as Mitzi Rosanna Steady, 4, Stephen Vaughan 34 and Phil Allen, 52. Mitzi's grandmother was taken by Air Ambulance to Southmead Hospital in Bristol, where she remains in a critical condition.

It's a terrible tragedy very similar to the devastating one here in Glasgow in December. R.I.P all who died and I hope all those injured recover in full.

Two innocent teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German were murdered just over a year ago in Delphi, Indiana. If you know who the man who could be responsible pleasecall the tip line. There is a reward of $250,000 - Tel- 844.459.5786 or email: abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com

May this be the year there is justice for Abigail and Liberty and William Tyrrell and Jessica Heeringa are found.

The driver of a runaway tipper truck involved in a collision that killed four people, including a four-year-old girl, was a teenager who had celebrated qualifying to drive an articulated lorry just five days earlier.

Phillip Potter, 19, received the congratulations of friends and relatives after posting a picture on Facebook in which he posed proudly in front of a lorry holding his new licence.

On Monday evening he was driving a 32-tonne truck that apparently careered out of control on a very steep and narrow hill on the outskirts on Bath. It ploughed into Mitzi Rosanna Steady, four, who was walking with her grandmother Margaret Rogers. Mitzi died instantly. Her grandmother remains critically ill in hospital in Bristol.

The truck overturned on a Volvo at the bottom of the hill in the village of Weston, also killing executives Phillip Allen, 52, and Robert Parker, 59, and their driver, Stephen Vaughan, 34.

Potter, a farmer’s son from Wiltshire, was treated in hospital for minor injuries and has since been discharged. Police spoke to him while he was in hospital and inquiries are continuing. No arrests have been made and no further developments in the investigation are expected before next week.

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Potter posed with his licence on Wednesday 4 February. His father, Frederick, wrote on Facebook: “Very proud day of Phillip Potter passing his HGV artic test first time day after his nineteenth birthday well done – feeling happy.”

It is understood that Potter had been qualified to drive certain categories of lorries for some months. He also has extensive experience driving tractors.

Police are continuing to investigate why the truck was on Lansdown Lane in Bath, where residents have long complained about lorries and other vehicles using it to skip around the centre of the city. The road has a width restriction but no weight limit.

I heard on the local news that the age limit to gain an LGV licence was reduced from 21 to 18 in 2009 to encourage more young people into the haulage industry.

There had been concerns raised previously about the road safety implications of the school redevelopment that the lorry was servicing.

Plans to increase the size of Weston All Saints Primary School have been approved by councillors, despite concerns from residents about road safety.

The application for new buildings at the Broadmoor Lane site, which will allow the school to grow from 420 pupils to 630, was voted through by members of Bath and North East Somerset Council’s development control committee meeting.

Broadmoor Lane Residents’ Association had been opposed to the plans, because it was worried the extra cars would exacerbate the already busy traffic problems outside the gates at drop-off and pick-up times.

Lisa Loveridge, from the group, said they were also not convinced the extra pupil places were really needed.

She also highlighted the fact that the council’s highways officer had raised a number of concerns about safety risks.

Peter Wood, who worked as a mechanic at Grittenham Haulage at the time of the tragedy in February last year, appeared before magistrates in Bath this morning charged with two counts of manslaughter...

The driver of the truck, Phillip Potter, aged 19, from Dauntsey, near Chippenham is currently on bail before a pre-trial hearing on July 1 in Bristol. He has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

His boss Matthew Gordon, 29, also from Dauntsey, was charged with two counts of 'aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring to cause death by dangerous driving', and two other counts related to the serious injuries.